fox hunting
noun
a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
fox hunter
-
a word derived from
fox hunting.
fox-hunter
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a word derived from
fox-hunting.
fox huntingnouna sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
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A senior fox hunter has been found guilty of encouraging and assisting people to evade the ban on fox hunting.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2021
Roberts was a prominent member of the Oxford community: He enjoyed a reputation as a crack fox hunter, he played fiddle at local celebrations and he was white.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
An avid fox hunter, he showed up sporting jodhpurs and brandishing a quirt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
Lord Halifax, a fox hunter and a gentleman, is aristocracy, and a good example of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everybody that is a fox hunter is of opinion that he hath a good breed, and some will say that the terrier is a peculiar species of itself.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
The fox-hunter was my old acquaintance, Mr. Bevan, the dragoon, and he had actually recognized me under my sunburn and buckskins.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Pink Petty, the famous fox-hunter with the silver-mounted horn; Capt.
From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott
Still Tim held on in a way a practised fox-hunter could alone have done, hitting now on the monster’s jaws, now behind him, and now on its side.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
Lord Fairfax was a staunch fox-hunter, and kept horses and hounds in the English style.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
He was a good runner, a keen fox-hunter, and a bold and graceful rider.
From Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin
